The
Third International Conference
on Improving Use of Medicines
“Informed Strategies, Effective
Policies, Lasting Solutions”
Bibliotheca Alexandrian,
Alexandria, Egypt, 10–14 April
2011
The third International
Conference on Improving Use of
Medicines (ICIUM) will be held
in Egypt from 10 to 14 April
2011 in the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, Alexandria. ICIUM
is a unique event that takes
place every seven years; the
first two ICIUMs took place in
Thailand, the first in 1997 and
the second in 2004.
The
conference will bring together
leading national and
international policy-makers,
programme managers, researchers,
clinicians and other
stakeholders to develop
consensus on interventions to
improve the use of medicines in
non-industrialized countries, to
define evidence-based
recommendations for programme
implementation and to generate
global research agendas to fill
gaps in knowledge.
The sessions will be organized
around different levels of the
health care system (global,
national, institutional) and the
topics running throughout the
conference will tentatively
include: HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis,
malaria, child health, chronic
illness, drug resistance,
economics, financing, insurance
systems, essential medicines,
policy and governance, the
pharmaceutical industry and
information technology for
improving use of medicines.
ICIUM is one of the few global
scientific events which is based
on active participation;
participants will help to shape
evidence-based policy
recommendations, implementation
strategies and a future research
agenda. The conference has a
registration prerequisite for
any participant to actively
contribute to the scientific
content of the conference. The
conference’s organizing
committee is aiming to provide
250 scholarships for
participants from developing
counties.
Abstracts need to be submitted
before 7 December 2010.
For more information on the
Third International Conference
for Improving Use of Medicines,
please contact:
emp@emro.who.int
ICIUM, 2011 – Conference First
Announcement
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